We’ve Always Been Here: 5 Openly Gay Hollywood Stars From The Past
These openly gay Hollywood figures risked so much by being honest about their sexuality: judgment, loss of employment, hate – even violence and death.

Fato, who has forgotten her humanity amid the pink artificiality and stench of a big city, comes to a quiet resort town to escape. Fato, a woman from wealthy circles whose life has been constantly directed by her powerful father and who is fleeing from a man she was forced to marry, runs freely along the beach with Alişan and his horse Gelincik. Fato soon meets Alişan, and a perfect relationship forms between them in every way. Just as Fato has found true happiness, her father reappears. For the beautiful woman who does not flinch in the face of threats from power, authority, and wealth, the time has come to choose between love and death...
These openly gay Hollywood figures risked so much by being honest about their sexuality: judgment, loss of employment, hate – even violence and death.
When Juana tries real sushi for the first time, she is immediatley smitten by it and discovers a passion she never knew she had.
Lee Daniels’s Billie Holiday biopic The United States vs. Billie Holiday was released on February 26th, 2021, and my immediate reaction to it was one of discomfort.
Based off the book of the same name, ‘The Miseducation of Cameron Post’ (2018) follows teenager Cameron Post (Chloë Grace Moretz) after she is caught being intimate with another girl and then sent away to a gay conversion camp.
Eloquent and informative, Hajera Sheikh’s documentary Kathak: Dancing With Taboos tells a story of love for one’s culture and perseverance through adversity.
All in all, 47 Meters Down: Uncaged is a film I would recommend. It promotes the bond of sisterhood, which in this case is clearly thicker than blood, as well as courage. No one truly knows how strong they are until they go through something unimaginable and come out changed for the better.